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Sentence Examples The breeches buoy would be passed hand over hand down a line, shot from a rocket on the shore to reach the ships. Cate was perched high in a tree, clad in a loose men's shirt and riding breeches. He was dressed in black breeches and a royal color shirt with a black cloak around him. She would run to the forest, leave the dress and, wearing breeches and shirt, go back to the castle. She had braided her hair, and dressed in breeches and tunic, her riding gloves tucked into her belt. They had a habit for wearing breeches under their dresses for such little rides like these. Each dressed exactly the same as the next, in brown leather riding breeches and tunics the color of dried blood. These costumes include tricornered hats, silk jackets, and riding breeches. He was dressed in black breeches, a white loose shirt and cravat, and a long black jacket. The girl facing him was dressed in muddy breeches and a soft grey-green shirt. He was dressed in burgundy velvet breeches, waistcoat and frock, with a silk and lace white shirt. Among them are Dutchman's breeches, spring-beauty, and various species of toothwort, trillium, and violet. A sailor from the sinking ship would climb into the breeches buoy and be pulled to shore. She was wearing only dark green breeches, belted around her waist and fastened just above the knees by gold clasps. The vest was cut from a damask brocade and the breeches from bengaline, the latter which was dyed to match the vest fabric. His beautifully sculpted body was sheathed in tan breeches and a white lined shirt, half opened at the neck. Thus, a miller in apron and shirtsleeves would not be confused with a magistrate in frock coat, knee breeches, and silk stockings. He was dressed in a worn tricorn, a dark homespun coat, knee-length breeches, dark stocking, and heavy brogue shoes. She stood, shucked her breeches then slipped into the steaming water, her fur floating out in a ruff at the waterline. She much preferred her breeches or underclothing to the stiff dresses she wore at home. Show More Sentences I found a pair of plain breeches and a linen shirt in a chest of drawers, along with the necessary undergarments. The riders will be dressed in their Army Dress Blue uniform with riding breeches, boots and their silver spurs. They wore big felt hats, their brims curled upwards, embroidered bolero jackets and cream colored chamois breeches. She realized she probably looked a fright in muddy breeches, and reached up to push a wisp of hair out of her eyes. He was wearing dark riding breeches, which were either a very dark navy blue, or black. His sweat would've soaked through her breeches, but she sat sort of side-saddle, and her legs were facing the inside of the arena. She'd stripped away almost all her Rim armour, down to the breastplate and chamois breeches. The rescuers used breeches buoys and lifeboats to bring the crew and passengers to shore. Lifesavers hauled the breeches buoy back and forth to the wreck until the last person, usually the captain, was safe. Three of the crew were taken ashore by breeches buoy but the vessel then slid off the rocks. I spread my arms wide for a moment, letting the drafts in my room play across my loose nightshirt and breeches. Trousers and spatterdashes replaced breeches and gaiters for field service. The boys were sprucely dressed in the customary costume of shirt, breeches, stockings and shiny black shoes. The picture above shows volunteer Dutchman's breeches, blue and striped squills, and Trillium recurvatum. He wore a plain, cambric shirt and tan breeches that tucked into shiny, black boots. Originally the barrels of 1888 Springfields were blued and the breeches were case-hardened. He was dressed simply, in black breeches and a white shirt that was open at the neck. With mild surprise, he noticed that she was wearing the breeches and shirt of a man. He ran unto the river Liffey, peeled off his breeches and jumped in, humecting thus his hairy skin. The forage cap became the service cap, and the blouse became the pocketed service coat, worn with pegged breeches, leggings, and russet footwear. Show More Sentences It was, indeed, a tunic and breeches, in the emerald and gold of the Warriors, in immaculate condition, clean and pressed. Here is the mail shirt and coif you asked for, and two pair of heavy breeches as well. Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red. He stood up, wiping his hands on his breeches, and a more intent look on his face. The fire-raisers took my hunting gear, including my breeches, which were hanging on the washing line to dry, and had stacked them at the door. A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff. His breeches were an expensive black velvet, but his shirt was a common white cotton with a neat and fashionable ruffle. Knee breeches or culottes were the de rigueur apparel for 18th century gentlemen. Somewhere she had found a tunic and a pair of breeches that fit her like a glove, emphasizing her perfect figure. Anand's protagonist, Bakha, wants to wear trousers, breeches, coat, puttees and boots. I washed and dressed in brown breeches and a black coat, not wanting to be encumbered by my heavy cloak. He was formally attired in brown breeches and a white silk shirt accompanied by a deep blue waistcoat. I looked longingly at my breeches, but picked up the next best thing, one of the long kilted skirts I used for riding. Henceforth Bentham always wore his green coat with scarlet lapels, scarlet waistcoat with gold lace, and white breeches. Osa and Martin Johnson dressed in riding breeches, laced boots, and pith helmets. His one-time shirt and breeches were now littered with rips and tears, and his body sorely needed a bath. I rarely wore my shirts tucked into my breeches, but for the rough and tumble training I was doing, it had become necessary. A trip to a Leeds theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff. It's a grand pageant set in elaborate 17th century costumes of wigs, breeches, tights and ruffs. A generous ruff about the neck, and breeches on the hind legs are preferred. Show More Sentences With his brightly coloured breeches, beaky nose and piercing eyes, he must have resembled a loquacious and quick-witted parrot. The men wore loose tunics and breeches, both in lovely colours, and wide tasselled sashes and embroidered vests. He stepped from behind the screen, dressed in light, silky green robes and soft doeskin breeches. When I looked to the man, I could see he was dressed in these brown breeches and a greenish tunic. She was dressed in bright red breeches tied with a cord inlaid with silver thread. If you took away all the cars and traffic lights, you wouldn't be entirely surprised to run into someone wearing breeches and a three-cornered hat. He wore a dark blue tunic and even darker blue riding breeches. He wore a tall black hat trimmed with gold braid, a black swallow tail coat with a white silk lining, white knee breeches and black, silver buckled shoes. He was stocky and dressed handsomely in his breeches and blouse. Occasionally I came upon a precocious spray of Dutchman's breeches, or wild bleedingheart, hung frailly with delicately transparent shell-like blossoms. He was dressed in tan breeches with black boots to the knee. She stood up and began shucking her breeches, still talking. Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels, milk thistles, huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches. Melvin found himself glad he had not allowed Grover to dress him up in all his formal frippery, opting instead for riding breeches and a plain lawn shirt. She removed her nightgown and donned a pair of black doeskin breeches. The torn and dirty breeches, sackcloth shirt, and tangled hair did not exactly jibe with the mental image she had formed of the prim and sharply dressed servant's master. I glanced down, noted I was dressed in cotton breeches and a silk shirt along with my corset and drawers, and sprung out from between the silk sheets. These days the field has broadened to include the niceties of life at Elizabethan court or Georgian cricketers in frills and breeches who invent the rules as they go along. I wiggled my fingers at him, which I am sure looked absolutely ridiculous coming from a woman wearing breeches, boots, a shirt, hair braided back, and a three-cornered hat. In late summer, bear's breeches blooms with creamy white to slightly pink or purplish flowers on dramatically tall, erect stalks held way above the foliage. Show More Sentences This species of bear's breeches is a clump-forming perennial which is grown as much for its attractive foliage as for its architecturally bold flower spikes. He wore light brown leather breeches and an open leather jacket. Turner was always sartorially elegant, often in yellow beige riding breeches, Sam Browne belt, powder blue tweed coat, gleaming boots, and military hat. Stripping off her leather breeches and boots, and her tunic, Isabella slid into the sudsy, herbal scented water of the tub, submersing her body up to her chin. But his dress was as peculiar as his wife's, a large black coat of an antique cut over a long waistcoat and a neckcloth, with knee-length breeches and buckled shoes. He was still a little mad she had worn breeches under her dress. No one but Michael Jackson wears knee breeches and gold braid anymore. She hurriedly dressed into breeches and a loose fitting shirt. Her foretop and funnel lie scattered by the impact of her fall which drove the breeches of her massive 15 in guns through the armoured turret tops. She was dressed in beige breeches, a black sweater and riding boots. She was wearing orange and red breeches, tied just below the knees. The colour of breeches vary from hunt to hunt and are generally of one colour, though two or three colours throughout the year may be permitted. Instead the City Fire Brigade rigged a breeches buoy to the ship, but additional manpower was needed to man the lines. Homer made several sketches of the breeches buoy while in Atlantic City and featured it in this painting. Our snapper was on hand to capture South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade using breeches buoy to rescue the red-faced captain and 22-man crew. I didn't kirtle my skirts above my knees. I'm not wearing breeches beneath my habit, though without a doubt they'd be warmer than my stockings. Listen, according to her horsey hangers-on, after a day's tallyhoing Camilla often slips out of her breeches and into evening wear. The shipwrecked mariners would then be brought safely to shore in a breeches buoy life ring, hauled along the line. There came the farmer on his plough-horse, in his coarse striped breeches, blue homespun coatee, and broadbrimmed hat. He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat. Show More Sentences Knickerbocker, originally a surname, has been used to describe a number of things, including breeches, glasses, and a basketball team. The dress uniform had blue or green breeches with broad coloured stripes in the Host colour and these were often worn with the service jacket. Moreover, she can wear breeches for riding, a skirtless dress for swimming, and even a divided skirt for dancing. They pulled his breeches around his ankles, and dragged him around the house, but Lawrence refused to reveal the whereabouts of his money. Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair. Scattered among them are clumps of Dutchman's breeches, which resemble tiny pantaloons hung out to dry, and twinleaf, rare in upland sites but common in the floodplain. That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it! The current Speaker no longer wears the traditional court dress outfit, which included knee breeches, silk stockings and buckled court shoes under their gown, or the wig. Those members not entitled to wear colours, dress in a black hunt coat and unadorned black buttons for both men and ladies, generally with pale breeches. Gun breeches were directly in front of the pilot, with obvious implications in case of accidents, but jams could be cleared in flight, while aiming was simplified. Chrysippus said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives. Unfortunately, the script has a one-track mind and strains at the breeches with chauvinistic quips, reducing virtually all female characters to simpering wenches. The Christmas Eve party is held in a chintzy country house in Regency England, giving reason for gorgeously muted empire-line dresses, dandyish breeches and cutaway jackets. But she was dressed in breeches and a slouch hat, a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth, and she beckoned April gladsomely with an immense cowthong whip. Examples from Classical Literature Then the breeches buoy was rigged, and in a little while a woman was hauled in from the wreck. Besides the breeches and anorak of light wind-cloth, he made stockings of the same material. Out to the wreck, the breeches buoy traveled, and then returned with its freight of a second man. Their calmness and skillful handling of the breeches buoy gear inspired the onlookers with renewed hope. But several waves washed completely 78 over the breeches buoy and the girl was each time buried from sight. I had on a pair of old breeches that had been sained in and dried so often they was about half rotten. He was dressed in a gray-flannel gown and short breeches, the stockings wrinkled and distained, the feet in slippers. An old man with a gray beard sat on a ditty box at the lee rail, sewing a pair of breeches. Domingo did not move any more quickly, because the doeskin breeches made it impossible. Daoud slipped his fingers into the breeches he wore under his hose and found the bag tied to the drawstring. Instead of breeches and top-boots, Mr Smythje fancied he had improved upon the costume, by encasing his limbs in long trousers. Stockings, until the middle of the century, were commonly drawn over the ends of the breeches and gartered below the knee. Florence wore corduroy breeches and high-top boots, and the advantage of this masculine garb was at once in evidence. His legs, incased in elk riding breeches and high boots, pranced under him with anger. The common burgher in his homespun breeches and kersey coat also took a part. What is there romantic about a queue, or slipper buckles, and knee breeches? His brown suit, knee breeches, and silk stockings, were set off by brightly polished steel buttons and diamond buckles. I saw him here last year and instinctively looked for the cocked hat and knee breeches associated forever with le petit caporal. He was clad in a huge waistcoat, long coat, knee breeches and hoseblue hoseupon his comely legs! And he would have been more conspicuous with a cocked hat on his bare red scalp, and knee breeches instead of buckskins. Show More Sentences I remember so late as Mr. Canning, the minister always came down in silk stockings and pantaloons, or knee breeches. The correct dress is loose jacket, knicker corduroy breeches, stout ribbed stockings, and box-cloth leggings. But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy! There's no sense in your staying there like a macaw, weeping for the seat of your breeches. She sewed up his union suit and put a bright blue patch on his brown linen breeches. A blue coat, murrey waistcoat, and breeches of drab set off a figure that could scarcely be surpassed. A pair of hose, the breeches of purple cloth of silver, welted with purple tinsel and gold. If that was wearing the breeches, I am sure I disgraced them with my worse than womanish fears. The chevalier would then brush away the snuff which had settled in the folds of his waistcoat or his paduasoy breeches. There were great holes burnt in his Panama hat, even in his riding breeches. The English footman in the scarlet breeches had been peeping from under the stairs. To be a gentleman was a matter of silk breeches and perukes and late hours? I have had this philibeg on now for some days, and I find I do as well with it as any the best breeches I ever put on. My own costume consisted of an old and thin British warm over either a thin shirt or vest with old riding breeches and puttees. He was surveying Wallie in his riding breeches and puttees with an expression that was at once amused and insolent. From them are descended the ballocks of Lorraine, which never dwell in codpieces, but fall down to the bottom of the breeches. He caused the breeches of a bencher of Lincolne's Inne to be taken-in by a tayler and made him beleeve that he had the dropsie. Pierre, utterly bewildered, could find neither his breeches nor his cassock. Then came the ominous clicking of the breeches as cartridges were thrust home. It is an excrescence, not an essential garment like the shirt and breeches. Show More Sentences His lordship threw off his dressing-gown and stood forth in shirt and breeches. She turned to Rotherby, who stood there in shirt and breeches and shoeless, as he had fought. Eric had worn his breeches a long while before he put them on for the first time. This clatter excepted and a few magnificent pairs of velvet breeches, the festival was the same as that at aas. If they could not get the breeches buoy to her the sea would be the grave of the castaways. The guards were burying in the sand a heavy anchor to which the main rope of the breeches buoy would be fastened. Beneath, there were a vest and breeches of red plush, somewhat worn and soiled. Under his linen milking-pinner he wore a dark velveteen jacket, cord breeches and gaiters, and a starched white shirt. He appears in a short coat, knee breeches, and short gaiters. The breeches are held in place by means of a drawstring in front. John is shown as a pigtailed young man in eighteenth-century knee breeches and buckled boots. Didn't the breeches and goggles and whiskers and hand-bag and every blessed thing turn to ghost-stuff? The man hath a straight sword within he leg of his breeches. It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thoughtful, to put his hands in his breeches pockets. In breeches and gaiters, broad-brimmed hat, grey coat, speckled choker,' said the waiter. Several times we shipped a little water, and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a hundred yards. He wore an unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled shako on the back of his head. I grabbed for Jud, and my fingers caught the knee of his breeches. He cant find a shoehorn with which to get into his breeches. I want all the men I can get to help us with the breeches buoy. Show More Sentences Of course the breeches buoy is safer, but look how they have to wait. Larry had his first sight of a rescue by means of the breeches buoy. He ran young Alec Simpson of the Courier a mile down the high road last week by the collar of his coat and the slack of his breeches. But now there's only old Manning, and young William, and a new-fashioned woman gardener in breeches and such-like. Rope mantlets are used on the breeches of some of the barbette guns. Two footmen were standing ready, dressed in drab livery, with scarlet breeches and white stockings. I'll get a pair of ridin' breeches an' boots for you by tomorrow. It was at Oxford I first dressed in knee breeches and silk stockings. With these words Drak shook the velvet breeches over the chimney pot. That fellow behind your chair may be a Janissary with a bow-string in his plush breeches pocket. His underlings, two gnomes with square faces, leather aprons, and linen breeches, were moving the iron instruments on the coals. Robin had not forgot the gentle arts taught by his mother, and he wore his fine red velvet tunic and breeches with the grace of a courtier. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment. He talked of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring's Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone's chintzes and crinolines. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun. Expect powdered periwigs, satin breeches, velvet frock coats and dazzling cuffs, as the musicians get stuck into the verve, colour and pomp of the 18th-century concert hall. He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with a soldier's cross, equally shabby cadet's riding breeches lined with worn leather, and an officer's saber with a sword knot. He no longer footed it in the great world in rust black and tarnished gold, but in blue silk breeches, and coat with silken linings and golden buttons. She would have liked to discard her riding breeches also, but the motherly admonitions of My Dear had convinced Meriem that it was not good form to go naked through the world. Find more words! 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